Nine hundred Vindicat members to come back to your site from skireis in the North of Italy

nine hundred members of the Groningen student group Vindicat, who is currently in the North of Italy, in the skiing times, Friday, at their own initiative to go back. During their skireis, it was the travel in the North of Italy, because of the corona virus are being strengthened.

"We're in the run-up to the trip and during the trip, each and every day to meet and talk with the public health service, the institute for public health and the mayor Koen Schuiling. Even though they do not have to be advised rather to go back home, I made the decision to do so," says Vindicat-president Flores Hamann of the guardian.

As of the students last week on vacation and went to Sestriere in Northern Italy, they were well-informed about the potential risks associated with the corona virus in the region, said a spokesman for the municipal health service in Groningen at NU.nl. The public health service and the student association held a day of contact, if any, complaints from the students.

Two days ago, it was the advice from the ministry of Foreign Affairs tightens up for the whole of the North of Italy. "However, the trend has reversed. Even though, according to the public health service and the institute for public health and have no medical reason to have to go back, I have decided that it is now to do so. The main reason for this is that we provide our members, their families, and to the Further path to take. This feels like the right decision to make," says Hamann on the paper.

The students will be on Friday in a bus in Italy, to depart and to arrive is expected to be Saturday, is back in new york. The municipal health service of Groningen, has let us know that the buses are not closer to the call location in a phased manner to deal with that. The organization will provide information, answer questions, and, where possible, people with the virus control. The details are still being worked out.

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The corona virus, in short, The virus is spread mainly through the coughs and niesdruppeltjes that are in the air. Those who have no symptoms, is it just a risk of infection. An infected person is infecting on average two to three other people. And this number is declining, however, due to all the safety precautions. By far, most of them mild (flu-like) symptoms. Almost all the deaths involve elderly or already ill people.